DarkSide744

Well, looks like this is the actual performance of this rig ... Out of curiosity, I ran an another test with stock clocks on the GPU. The average FPS went up by a little when it was OC'd, but it lost performance at the physics tests which I'm guessing is not a (big) problem (I can barely get 12 FPS there anyway) http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/8622856. Edit: Nevermind, I'm stupid.

Sadly, the Vantage one crashes everytime it reaches the 2nd CPU test so I could only test on 3Dmark 11 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/8621976

Just noticed a strange thing: While testing in furmark, the GPU load sometimes dips down to 63-64% for a few moments; I don't know if this is ok or not. Second thing is that it instantly underclocked the card as you can see in the screenshot.

My GPU has different stats ... Damn the bandwidth is 11 GB slower

I don't really want to take it apart, since I could still RMA it if I wanted to ... speaking of which, should I try to RMA it? I've already reseted the OC on it ( I hope they can't check / won't bother with it)

I'm kinda disappointed that a ~220$ video card can't handle today's games on their fullest Oh well, dreams are meant to be broken. Thank you for your help, greatly appreciated

I've just installed the newest AMD drivers, so I don't think that's the problem. This maybe is related with a problem I had a while ago. I did a little bitcoin mining, just to see how much it can make. After a few minutes, black squares started appearing on the monitor. I'm not sure what happened after, because like I said, it was 4-5 months ago. Is it possible that something got fried on the Graphics card? If it is, then it's strange that no visible problems occur either while stress-testing or while playing.

The power settings are on performance, I've disabled core parking as well. running a Prime95, I did both small and large FFT torture tests for around 10 minutes, the highest temp was 49,1 C. (I have a coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO for cooling) Cinebench results: CPU 446 cb OpenGL 78.32 FPS

My PSU model is Chieftec CTG-500-80P. I was thinking about the PSU faulty as well, and I bought a GPS-500A8, but it has only one 6 pin GPU connector, and only a 4 pin motherboard connector, when I need 2x6 for the GPU and 8 for the motherboard, so I had to stay with my old one. The older CPU requires more power though, so I'm not sure what's wrong. As for graphical glitches, I am not experiencing any in any of the games. The video card usually goes up to 70-75 C when under heavy load, and when I ran performance monitor and Skyrim, it had a few spikes when the GPU was on full speed, then it went back to around 50-60% average usage. Edit: for the memory thing: I didn't put them on the same channel slots, because as far as I know, dual channel only works on the same type of RAM ( I'm not sure though)

Hi everyone! This will be a kinda all-around post, but since there is no general section and I think my GPU is the culprit, I've posted in the Video Card section. I'm not too sure about the Sapphire R9 270X's performance, but I think my GPU is underperforming for some reason. I'll start with my specs: - Motherboard: gigabyte ga-970a-ud3 rev 3.0 - CPU: AMD-FX6300 OC'd to 3.9Ghz - GPU: Sapphire R9 270X dual-x - Memory: DDR3 1x 1600Mhz Kingston Hyper-X 4Gb, 1x 1333Mhz Kingston Hyper-X 2Gb (I'm not sure if this setup is okay) - PSU: 500W Chieftec Now onto the actual stuff: I think the GPU has some problems. For example, Watch Dogs is lagging on higher graphical settings, and Skyrim with ENB lags like hell as well, even though when I had a HD7770, I could run it on constant 40 FPS. Am I overexpecting my specs? Because of the bad performance, I've tried overclocking my GPU as well. Turns out, it LOST performance after overclocking. I'm not sure if this is a normal thing, I'm not smart in GPU overclocking. I've tried raising the power limit by a few %, but that did not help either. I've did a burn-in test with furmark, and I noticed that at higher temps on around 75 C, it started undervolting itself. Is it possible that is the reason why its performance in more demanding games is bad? Other thing: I've recently changed my CPU to the FX6300, before it was a Phenom II X4 965. I have run a heaven benchmark test on both setups, and there is a slight performance drop after the change (actually, the minimum FPS went up, but the max and the average went down). I have included a picture of both test results (the processor's Mhz is just a bug, it was actually around 3500 Mhz). What could be causing this? I am sorry for the utter randomness of the questions, I'm new here